Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Turkey, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

@Catac83 I don't think Peter was talking about Turkey invading Romania and Bulgaria. lol He was talking about influence and integration.
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@BjonGevert, At this point it is quite impossible for Turkey to become an EU member. 1. The EU simply doesn't want them for many reasons I won't get into. 2. Even if the EU changed their mind, the Turks really have no interest in jumping onto a sinking ship.
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@tarkgundogdu8940 The EU isn't even popular among people within the EU, let alone in nations outside of it lol The EU and most of it's nation states are dead men walking.
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@arcar66 In the 1990s if you were earning 1,000 TL a month, you would have starved to death. Bread in Turkey used to cost like 2 million Lira in the 90s what are you smoking? At least say the early 2000s and make it believable.
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@tiyes94 Hard to say when a nation like Germany will turn into a third world country. It really isn't a question of if but really a question of when. They have no economic model which can withstand a situation where they don't have cheap inputs into their manufacturing base. As far as the new Europe, I'm not sure if it will be the middle east. If I was a betting man I'd say ASEAN. If I was a young man (which I'm not) I'd move to Indonesia. In the long term I also think Turkey's prospects will be better than the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Those nations are scary places to put your roots down into because none of them have the ability to defend themselves. Being extremely wealthy and no means to defend yourself is a dangerous proposition.
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@RawandCookedVegan. They've followed a terrible monetary policy which pushed growth at all costs. Now they're in this pickle. It will take at least a decade of sound monetary policy to filter out all the pain out of the system.
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@tarkgundogdu8940 Those benefits you speak of aren't going to last long. The European Union is going to die, the money is going to dry up. It is deindustrializing at a very rapid pace. The EU money flowing into those nations you speak of flow out from the largest economic engines of western Europe. Which no longer has the ability to generate that kind of revenue. It is game over. As those nations again in 10 years if they feel they "benefit" from the EU. Assuming the EU is still around in 10 years. Europe shot itself in the foot Geo strategically speaking. They won't recover from this.
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@paulpierce2051 Not it isn't, it is Crimean Tatar.
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@devalapar7878 The polarization of the 70s and 80s between the left and right wasn't organic or homegrown. It was two groups of people under heavy influence and money from two super powers playing tug of war. Once the money dried up, so did the polarization. The same seems to be happening with the Kurdish issue now as well, once the money dries up so does the conflict. There is an organic polarization going on right now though that isn't tied to foreign money. The polarization between so-called white and brown Turks. The urban liberal western oriented elite vs the conservative inland. That is real and I'm not sure how they're going to solve that.
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@my-curiosity He said they didn't colonize like the Brits or French in AFRICA. Can you give some examples of Turkish genocides in Africa if any exist? If not, you really should learn how to read what is actually written before you respond. I would ask you to use google but google won't help the comprehension problem you seem to have.
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If the US pulls out, there is literally nothing European nations can do to project power. They'll be bystanders.
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@BjornGevert My mistake I read it wrong. Again the answer is probably no. The power dynamics between Turkey and The EU is quite different than the power dynamics between Mexico and America. The EU in the long term has essentially turned Turkey into a hostile actor that they're going to have to deal with for the next 100 years.
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@onurturhal6814 Turkiyede 20 senedir cok zaman geciren bir yabanci olarak. I think I can answer your question on what "Turkish mentality" the earlier poster was talking about. 1. Emotional instability. 2. Complete and utterly corrupt people. They'll rob their own mothers for 2 dollars. But in the long term I'd imagine it will still end up being a better place to live than most European nations. Assuming you can deal with the constant stress of someone trying to rob you at every single turn. Not to mention watching everyone you know go through a horrible "miras kavgasi" when their parents die. I think the term is "ac goz" or "serefsiz"
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@blablup1214 As someone who has spent a lot of time in that country in the past 20 years, I can confirm that you're 100% right. How corrupt the people are is mindboggling. The guy who runs the corner store is as corrupt as the highest officials in the government. But you get used to it after a while lol Watching these people fall over themselves trying to steal 1 dollar from you lol
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